Journal entry · April 22, 1806
Overland to Walla Walla, council with Yelleppit — John Ordway: April 22, 1806
John Ordway · Columbia River above Celilo · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Columbia River above Celilo
we loaded up our horses & set out. assended a high hill one of
the horses threw hills threw his load & Scattered it one of the
Indians Stole a robe & hid it in one of their lodges, we found it2
& proced on [through] the high Smooth plain which is extensive &
Smooth back from the river about noon we halted at a village of
the Wal-a-wal tribe where we bought a dog and a little firewood,
the wind so high from the N. W. that the canoes being on the oppo-
site side of the river could not cross we purchased a horse, took
a light dinner and proceed on about 6 miles and Camped3 at a vil-
lage where we purchased a horse 5 dogs and a little wood and con-
siderable of new chappalell &C. in the evening Serg* Gass & R.
Fields came across the river & joined us with one of the Small
canoes.
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The NPS atlas for this night
right bank, near John Day Dam, in WA
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino)
From the NPS Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas, mirrored here on September 21, 2026. This copy is not authoritative; NPS remains the system of record. About the mirror
Terrain360 · the place today
Columbia River above Celilo in 360°
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